Cowboys deny Bears request for permission to interview Mike McCarthy + Titans fire GM Ran Carthon (Hour 2)
PFT Live with Mike Florio
Mike Florio
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🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What we're looking for, we're looking for clear vision, a developmental mindset, really good game management, and obviously a plan to develop a quarterback is going to be a key part of that as well. |
| 0:13.0 | We're going to cast a wide net. It's going to be a diverse group. There's going to be different backgrounds from offense, defense, special teams, college pro. |
| 0:21.4 | We are turning every stone to make sure that we're doing this the right way. |
| 0:25.5 | We believe that's going to be really, really important. |
| 0:29.3 | There's going to be some names that you don't expect that are going to surprise you |
| 0:32.8 | because we're digging deeper than we ever have before. |
| 0:36.6 | In terms of timing, we're going to move with urgency, |
| 0:39.1 | but we are not going to rush the process, again, because we want it to be a sound process. |
| 0:43.8 | Are all options on the table, would you consider giving up draft capital to trade for a coach |
| 0:47.9 | of a currently employed by another team? |
| 0:50.2 | Yeah, we'll look at it all avenues to get the best coacher. |
| 0:56.2 | That's Ryan Poles and Bears GM. |
| 0:57.7 | That meshes with what I heard over the weekend. |
| 0:59.8 | They are going to look high and low for the right coach. |
| 1:04.7 | And they're not 100% committed to this, but they want to, as part of the process, |
| 1:11.5 | are going to talk to all the usual candidates, but they're going to dig deeper, because they want to see if there's |
| 1:15.3 | someone out there that no one is talking about, that no one is thinking about, that could be |
| 1:20.6 | the Mike Tomlin. Because before Mike Tomlin was Mike Tomlin, he was just Mike Tomlin, and there |
| 1:27.1 | weren't a whole lot of people that understood how special he could be. |
| 1:31.2 | He had one year as a defensive coordinator in Minnesota. |
| 1:33.8 | The word got out quickly, but they were going to hire Russ Grimm, not Mike Tomlin. |
| 1:38.3 | Sean McVeigh wasn't household name until he became Sean McVeigh. |
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